Powerful Soviet-era weapons modified with fins and sat-navs are giving Putin’s men aerial supremacy because they are so difficult to shoot down
  • Optimus_Subprime [he/him, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    Recently, Drongo was driving an unarmoured car as fast as possible down a makeshift track in Serebryansky forest on a mission to recover the stranded corpses of Ukrainians who had died a few days previously. A glide bomb exploded nearby. In an instant pine trees were shredded to matchsticks and his 4×4 was engulfed by a shrapnel tornado.

    A soldier of ten years’ Donbas experience, Drongo said the shell shock was unlike anything he had experienced.

    thonk

    So the Sunday Times just admitting that Ukraine has been at war with the Donbas since 2014? Did they just give up the game?

  • GaryLeChat@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    It seems that in this article, they don't think Russian air defense will be able to shoot down F-16s. The way this is written seems like they said we have to write an article saying that F-16s would allow Ukraine to hold the line and filled the rest around that point.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Serious question: I have no idea what a glide bomb is. What/how is it used and why is it important? I stopped following that war.

    I tried to read the Wiki page but halfway through the first paragraph - I started to get a migraine.

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    Edit: answered.

    • Babs [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      Regular bomb: dumb and unguided, falls downwards, needs to be dropped on top of an enemy that's probably trying to prevent you from getting into position to do so.

      Glide bomb: cool wings and rudders and stuff, glides horizontal and pretends to be a cruise missile, can be dropped from safe a distance away where nobody can shoot back.

        • Babs [she/her]
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          3 months ago

          Dumb bomb is gonna fall basically where you drop it. Smart bomb is gonna fall very accurately where you drop and steer it. Glide bomb gets dropped and then glides to somewhere else where you wanna drop it.

          I think.